1. Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn (sp) placed blame on the Jews in Russia for pushing the Bolshevik revolution.
2. 1921 - The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act (ch. 8, 42 Stat. 5 of May 19, 1921) restricted immigration into the U.S. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the an important turning-point in American immigration policy" because it added 2 new features to American immigration law: (1) numerical limits on immigration from Europe and (2) the use of a quota system for establishing those limits. The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the U.S. as of the U.S. Census of 1910. Based on that formula, the number of new immigrants admitted fell from 805,228 in 1920 to 309,556 in 1921-22. The act meant that only people of Northern Europe who had similar cultures to that of America were likely to get in. The reason given was that the American government wanted to protect its culture when this act was introduced, however some felt it was mainly a response to millions of Eastern European Jews fleeing persecution that had been growing since about 1890, and which was becoming unbearable. Also, many believed these Jewish immigrants were importing communism with them.
3. 1965 - The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act, INS, Act of 1965, Pub.L. 89236) abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the U.S. since the Emergency Quota Act of 1921. It was proposed by U.S. Representative Emanuel Celler (D-NY: His paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were German Jews. This was the culminating moment in Celler's 41-year fight to overcome restriction on immigration to the U.S. based on national origin.), co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Philip Hart (D-MI) and heavily supported by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). The Hart-Celler Act replaced the EQA with a preference system that focused on immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S. residents. It marked a radical break from the immigration policies of the past. The law as it stood then excluded Asians and Africans and preferred northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern ones. At the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s the law was seen as an embarrassment by, among others, POTUS #35 JFK, who called the then-quota-system "nearly intolerable". Some historians thought that JFK saw a chance for retaliation in response to the anti-Irish Catholic bigotry by WASPs he encountered as a younger man. After Kennedy's assassination, POTUS #36 LBJ signed the bill at the foot of the Statue of Liberty as a symbolic gesture. In order to convince the American populace - the majority of who were opposed to the act - of the legislation's merits, its liberal proponents assured that passage would not influence America's culture significantly. POTUS #36 LBJ called the bill "not revolutionary", SoS Dean Rusk estimated only a few thousand Indian immigrants over the next 5 years, and other politicians, including Senator Ted Kennedy, hastened to reassure the populace that the demographic mix would not be affected; these assertions would later prove wildly inaccurate. In line with earlier immigration law, the bill also prohibited the entry into the country of "sexual deviants", including homosexuals. By doing so it crystallized the policy of the INS that had previously been rejecting homosexual immigrants on the grounds that they were "mentally defective" or had a "constitutional psychopathic inferiority". After ethnic quotas on immigration were removed in 1965, the number of actual 1st generation immigrants living in the U.S. eventually quadrupled from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. Over 1 million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008. The leading countries of origin of immigrants to the U.S. were Mexico, India, the Philippines, and China. Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the U.S. from 2000 to 2010. Family reunification accounts for approximately two-thirds of legal immigration to the U.S. every year. The number of foreign nationals who became legal permanent residents (LPRs) of the U.S. in 2009 as a result of family reunification (66%) exceeded those who became LPRs on the basis of employment skills (13%) and for humanitarian reasons (17%).
Rep. Celler's crusade to pass this law was fueled by the persecutions of Jews in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. Many tried to immigrate and claim refugee status in the U.S. but were denied.
4. 2005 - Rev. Dr. Zahl, an ordained (Episcopal) orthodox Christian theologian and prolific writer, published his book, The Christianity Primer: Two Thousand Years of Amazing Grace The History, Development, and Meaning of the Christian Religion. Excerpt below ...
Chapter XXI The Twentieth Century: The Challenge of Three Formidable Problems
p. 295 JUDAISMS ENDURING NO
Judaisms enduring no (refusal to accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God/ messiah) has never changed. Judaism has been strengthened immeasurably by the identity-renewing fact of the Holocaust and its political consequence, the creation of the state of Israel (despite the fact that Jews in the United States are increasingly secularized). The Christian significance of Judaisms no has been worked out in changed doctrine for the Roman Catholics and sapped confidence for the Protestants. Large sectors of Christianity have lost their nerve as a result of Judaisms negation.
p. 286 The Catholic Church altered its teaching As a result of awareness of the Holocaust, the Catholic Church actually altered its historic teaching concerning Jews. Instead of saying that Jews needed to become Christians to be saved, Pope John Paul II instead declared just after the turn of the (21st) century that Jews have their own way to God and their own covenant and that these are just as valid for Jews as the New Covenant is for Christians. he was able with the stroke of a pen to declare null and void a position that his predecessors had taken from the earliest times.
p. 295
I predict that the next 30 years will see Christians needing to work very hard to absorb the impact of Jewish perspectives without giving up their own souls. The Southern Baptists, who have not compromised in relation to Jewish evangelism, may in fact end up carrying the soul of Bible Christianity for the rest of the Protestant churches during this era of Christian insecurity concerning the Person of Christ.
5. The 112th U.S. Congress (2011-2012) contained 39 Jewish members - 12 senators (12/100 = 12%) and 27 representatives (27/435 = 6%). Only 1 out of the 39 was a Republican. The 38 Democrat Jewish members all had ACU (American Conservative Union) voting ratings of <15, which meant they all voted very liberal. Both of CAs senators are Jewish. CA and NY each has 6 Jewish representatives.
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“agree that it is the larger, liberal U.S. Jewish sects (Reformed and Conservative) and the secular Jews in the U.S. who are driving the progressive agenda in the U.S.”
They are certainly participants, but to say they are “driving the progressive agenda” is a bit much. Jews, overall, make 1.7% of the USA population. Probably 1/3 is Republican, and 1/3 is non-political, so you’re dealing with .6% of the the USA population.
They can be influential in their small way, but “driving”? Hardly.
And there are plenty of conservative secular Jews (as much I dislike secular Jews): Mark Levin, Jonah Goldberg, etc.
Here are some Bible verses that, to me, may indicate the Will of God to leave a remnant of Jews on earth to continue to set this situation in motion:
Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries. --Ezekiel 6:8I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together like sheep of the fold, like a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make a loud noise because of so many people. --Micah 2:12
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passes through, both treads down and tears in pieces, and none can deliver. --Micah 5:8
The coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed their flocks there; in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will intervene for them, and return their captives. --Zephaniah 2:7
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, and the people of Ammon like Gomorrah overrun with weeds and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them. --Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore wait for Me, says the Lord, Until the day I rise up for plunder; My determination is to gather the nations to My assembly of kingdoms, to pour on them My indignation, all My fierce anger; all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy. --Zephaniah 3:8
For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. --Zechariah 14:2
Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. --Romans 9:27
Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. --Romans 11:5
The "Notes on the Correct Way to Present the Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church", which covers the scope of Pope John Paul II's perspective, calls for the eradication of historic charges of collective guilt against Jews (deicide), acknowledges the Covenant with the Jewish people, which God Himself pronounced to Abraham and Sarah as "everlasting," and insists on complete religious liberty and respect as partners in dialogue. It also contains the following paragraphs:
"7. "In virtue of her divine mission, the Church" which is to be "the all-embracing means of salvation" in which alone "the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained" (Unit. Red. 3), "must of her nature proclaim Jesus Christ to the world" (cf. Guidelines and Suggestions, 1). Indeed we believe that it is through him that we go to the Father (cf. In 14:6) "and this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent" (In 17:3).Jesus affirms (ibid. 10:16) that "there shall be one flock and one shepherd". The Church and Judaism cannot then be seen as two parallel ways of salvation and the Church must witness to Christ as the Redeemer for all, "while maintaining the strictest respect for religious liberty in line with the teaching of the Second Vatican Council (Declaration Dignitatis Humanae, Guidelines and Suggestions, I).
Thus I think the Rev. Dr. Zahl did not fully understand Pope John Paul's perspective. The Pope called for respect for Jews and Judaism, a renewed appreciation of what is shared in our spiritual patrimony, and a recognition that Jesus Christ, and Christ alone, is the Savior of the human race, to whom every person must come for their well-being and redemption..